At first glance, Diego Abente Brun may look like a scholar who stumbled into politics. on closer examination, it is clear that politics has defined his scholarship.

Abente's introduction to the passions and punishments of politics came early on as a high-school student, and continued into his days at the Catholic University of Asunción in Paraguay. Like other idealistic members of his generation, he wanted to see greater openness on the part of the Alfredo Stroessner regime and feared for the future of his homeland. And, like so many others, he came face-to-face with the security apparatus that kept Strossner in power for 35 years.

Read more: When Democracy Is Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Print Version Twenty-five years ago, much of Latin America was mired in political repression. In the US, the Reagan administration was engaged in an ambivalent policy of support for both democratic and authoritarian regimes. The Vatican was growing increasingly concerned about the clergy who were giving voice to liberation theology.

Read more: Looking Back at the Founding of Kellogg

Print Version In the spring semester of 1983, the Kellogg Institute hosted its first class of Visiting Fellows. Back then, the goals of the program were very much as they are today: to support scholarship related to Kellogg's research agenda, while enriching the academic life of the Institute.

On Kellogg's 25th anniversary, we look back at what happened to several of those first Visiting Fellows.

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In the mid-1970s REV. EDMUND "NED" JOYCE, CSC, Executive Vice President of the University and right-hand man to then-President REV. THEODORE HESBURGH, CSC, had been cultivating a relationship with Helen Kellogg regarding an endowment to Notre Dame, possibly to start an international institute at the University.

Helen was the daughter-in-law of W. K. Kellogg, the breakfast cereal magnate who had given away much of his fortune to philanthropic causes, and the wife of John Kellogg, who had started the general Packing Company, makers of Waxtite paper.

When John died in 1950, a philanthropic foundation was created in his name to dispense his considerable fortune. By the time of Helen's death in 1978, the John L. and Helen Kellogg Foundation had amassed close to $50 million in assets.

Read more: Who Was Helen Kellogg?

In the Economics and Econometrics Department at Notre Dame, the work of four Kellogg Faculty Fellows tackles some key issues in the developing world:free trade, exchange rates, environmental policy, and tax and monetary policy.

Read more: By the Numbers